People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.- Paddy Ashdown

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.- Matthew Simpson

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness;he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious,and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.- Joseph Addison

Every actual State is corrupt.Good men must not obey laws too well.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If allowed to run free of the social system,capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy,which is after all not a natural state.- John Ralston Saul

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city.It's the most theatrically corrupt.- Studs Terkel

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.- Tacitus

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.- Edmund Burke

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution,orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko.The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.- Bob Schaffer

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation,for the sole purpose of defeating party.- James F. Cooper

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.- Ovid

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.- John Acton

Political ideology can corrupt the mind,and science.- E. O. Wilson

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recentlykilled under the corrupt regime of President Karimovin what human rights groups are calling a massacre.- Ed Markey

Media corporations have a civic responsibility notonly to prevent fraud and financial abuse,but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.- Charles W. Pickering

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt,I take it personally and consider it a moral obligationto sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.- David Hackworth

When we get piled upon one anotherin large cities, as in Europe,we shall become as corrupt as Europe.- Thomas Jefferson

Debt is the fatal disease of republics,the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.- Wendell Phillips

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.- Tacitus

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't havethat much experience with the law.While the majority of people aren't corrupt,there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.- James Patterson

They call me corrupt, frivolous.I am not at all privileged.Maybe the only privileged thing is my face.And corrupt? God!I would not look like this if I am corrupt.Some ugliness would settle down on my system.- Imelda Marcos

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lowercourts by saying I was a young law teacher wantingexperience in criminal law.The judges were happy to assist me but what I learnedwas how corrupt the lower courts were.Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.- Samuel Dash

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors;and laying aside corrupt superstitions,let them acknowledge their Father and Lord,whose excellence cannot be estimated,nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.- Lactantius

In the year since we brought things into the open witha clean breath of fresh air at City Hall,we have learned about corrupt spending practices andunethical conflicts of interest that waste your money...and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.- Laura Miller

Men of integrity, by their very existence,rekindle the belief that as a people we can live abovethe level of moral squalor.We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.- John W. Gardner

There were a lot of adventure books for boys,historical novels by Kenneth Roberts,and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imaginedmight not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.- Peter Straub

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt thatthey have trouble making money off movies.So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in.If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.- Bruce Sterling

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondageof the narrow circle of life,which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man,never finds a more sublime expression than where humanityis oppressed and religion is corrupt.- Hall Caine

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be,he loves fairness more than anything else.If the people placed over him are unfair,from year to year he lapses into an embittered statecharacterized by an extreme lack of faith.- Anton Chekhov

A fool is one who goes on trusting;a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience.You deceive him, and he trusts you;and you deceive him again, and he trusts you;and you deceive him again, and he trusts you.Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn.His trust is tremendous; his trust isso pure that nobody can corrupt it.Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense.Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you.Whatsoever experience comes to you,let it happen, and then go on dropping it.Go on cleaning your mind continuously;go on dying to the past so you remain in the present here-now,as if just born, just a babe.- Osho

Power is always dangerous.Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.- Edward Abbey

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.- William Pitt

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moralauthority and character increase as the importanceof the position increases.- John Adams

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation;the next greatest is he who corrupts it.- Joshua Reynolds

Evil communication corrupts good manners.I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.- Benjamin Banneker

Power corrupts.Absolute power is kind of neat.- John F. Lehman, Jr.

In the United States, though power corrupts,the expectation of power paralyzes.- John Kenneth Galbraith

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.- Edmund Burke

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,does absolute powerlessness make you pure?- Harry Shearer